Vista not connecting via wireless router to the internet

I have Dell laptop (new within the past two months) and at one point I was able to connect to our wireless access point. Then all of a sudden it stopped! When I inspect the connection it show "Local Only" with a red x at the internet link. What is up?

I had just installed Vista Home Premium on a wired box and noticed the same
icon in the sys tray. Once IE7 was opened and navigated to the ms default
home page, my connection was reestablished. Have not had time to
investigate but maybe someone has.

All IP setting are Auto. Looking in the Network and Sharing Center, the
Network type is set to Private and the personal firewall is on but have not
declared a workgroup or domain. This machine is currently running on an
office LAN being here only for assembly. I wonder if this Access Local vs
Internet is a result of the above configuration.

I'm having the same issue. I'm sitting here on an Acer Netbook with XP that connected directly with no problems. A $300 netbook. But my $800 laptop with Vista is giving the same "local only" thing. Any answers?

I've also seen this where IP v6 is enabled. If you go Control Panel, Network and Sharing Center, View the Status of your connection, then open up the properties, unselect the Internet Protocol Version 6 and make sure that IP v4 is checked.
Andy

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